Tunes & Tales: Jana Kramer

Here's a fun fact for you - I loved One Tree Hill. It was one of my favorite TV shows while it was still running (even though I started it when it was already a few seasons in) and I stayed with it till the end (though S01-S05 are the ones I love most). Jana Kramer portrays Alex, an actress who works with Brooke for Clothes Over Bros, and also happens to be a screenwriter. Alex eventually also pursues a music career - which is something Jana did in real life, releasing her self-titled debut album in 2012. I only really took the time to listen to Jana's album this summer, but it quickly became one of my favorites to put on repeat!

 VIBE: country, with pop and rock undertones

WHY: Sweet vocals + clever lyrics + catchy melodies

TRY: My favorite song at the moment is Why Ya Wanna. There's definitely a story in that one!

Good Time Comin' On / Love & Chaos

Oh yeah, that’s my song

Turn it up and sing along

Trouble’s gonna melt away

Once we get to doing our thing

Yeah, I feel like a good time comin’ on

Hey y’all what you say

We get this party started

We’ve got all we need to have some fun

Right now it’s all about tonight and not tomorrow

I feel like a good time comin’ on

I Hope It Rains / First & Then

Don't get me wrong, now I hope she's really the one.

And if it's love you know I wish you the best.

You'll probably have yourself an outside wedding,

Violins, all our friends, and her in her pretty white dress.

And right before that first kiss...

I hope it rains on you,

Maybe a little bit of lightning too.

And I hope it comes a flood, lots of mud,

Messin' up your whole day.

Why Ya Wanna / What I Thought Was True

I wish you had on sunglasses to cover up those blue eyes

I wish you said something mean to make me glad that you said goodbye

Why can't you look off somewhere if you catch me staring at you

Why can't you be cold like any old good ex would do

So-o-o

Why you wanna

Show up in a old t-shirt that I love

Why you gotta tell me that I'm looking good

Don't know what

You were thinkin'

You were doing

Moving in for a hug

Like you don't know I'm coming unglued

Why you gotta

Why you wanna

Make me keep wanting you

Goodbye California / Nowhere But Home

I love the southern moonlight

I love them lemon moon pies

I love the sweet cherry wine, oh

I like the tiny town we’re in

Love it when the preacher says amen

Love me a gentle southern man[...]

I like boots, you, your drunk tattoo

Drivin’ in the country when the daffodils bloom

I like your mustang, your sexy hot twang

Country fried chicken is a beautiful thing

Whiskey / Rome

Hit me so hard like a rock through a window.

I knew I was in trouble from the moment I met you, boy.

Shoulda just called it like I saw it.

Shoulda just called for help and ran like hell that day.

The burn and the sting, and the high, and the heat, 

And the "left-me-wanting-more" feeling when he kissed me.

I shoulda just called him "Whiskey"

Over You By Now / Another Day

Instead of wasting all that time

I could've been two wheels up

I could've been hard-heeled strong

This could've been my last tear

You could've been so long gone.

I wouldn't be lost like this

I wouldn't be breaking down

I would've been over you by now.

One of the Boys / Asa

Gimme a ball cap with blue Levi’s

I’m hangin’ with Jack and Jim and raisin’ ‘em high

I’m might just flirt if I see something I like

Yeah I’m just one of the boys tonight

What I Love About Your Love / Brown-Eyed Girl

You lean over.my shoulder

And it's over and done

Ain't nothing like the feeling of finding that one

It's the piece of the puzzle

Ain't no doubt about it

It's a good kind of trouble

That's what I love about your love

Knocks me off my feet

Takes me on a trip to another galaxy 

Smacks me with a smile

Longer than a country mile

Get's my heart runnin' 

Like a river runnin' wild

I can never get enough 

That's what I love about your love

When You're Lonely / Life By Committee

I've made that mistake, I've let you crawl back in,

Now I don't have the heart to fall for you again

You only want me when you're lonely

You only call me when you're down

You only want me when you're lonely,

But you can't have me now

King of Apology / This Ordinary Life

Baby you're the king of apology

Baby, save your breath

For the pretty little thing you've been runnin' around with

I'm done forgivin', I'm tired of listenin'

To all your lies

Baby you're out of a one-more-try's

I'm packin' my bags, I'm sayin' goodbye

Good As You Were Bad / We'll Always Have Summer

They say you remember the past

Better than it really was

But there was a time when it really was

So good

I could handle this pain, forget your name

If you hadn't loved me like you had

Why'd you have to be as good as you were bad

I Won't Give Up / Queen of Shadows

You need someone who knows you from the inside out

The way I do

I seen you walk the wire never looking down

I believe in you

I will be by your side

If ever you fall deep in the dead of the night

And I won’t give up

No, I won’t give up

I won’t give up

You can call it love

But I won’t give up on you